'The history of Arsaces Prince of Betlis' (1774) by the Co. Limerick-born Charles Johnstone (c.1719-c.1800) is an eastern fable, an Oriental anticipation of the bildungsroman in the manner of Johnson'
Now available in paperback! Originally published in 1781, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion; or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald is an unconventional epistolary novel set in Irelan
The History of Jack Connor (1752) is the only (and once very popular) novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709-1781). An example of sentimental picaresque fiction in the
